GShutdown doesn't execute Shutdown, Restart or End Session..

[martin]

Binary package hint: gshutdown

Ubuntu 10.10 Beta
GShutdown 0.2

GShutdown will not execute any of its actions 'shutdown' 'restart' or 'end current session'.

The warning message is displayed just before the action is supposed to occur 'Warning! Your computer is going to Shutdown!' but nothing happens and the computer is left running normally.

There is also a grammatical error in the End Session message, 'Warning! Your going to logout now!' This should be 'You're going to logout..

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: gshutdown 0.2-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.33-generic 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Oct 7 11:23:32 2010
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gshutdown
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gshutdown

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Mantas Kriaučiūnas (mantas)]

Lots of improvements made in GShutdown since May 2008 (GShutdown 0.2 release), see
http://svn.tuxfamily.org/viewvc.cgi/gshutdown_gshutdown/ChangeLog?view=markup
But Ubuntu 12.04 and older includes old and buggy GShutdown 0.2 :(

Btw, last active GShutdown developer told me "gshutdown is no longer developed nor maintained", see text bellow.
So, I've chosen to improve Gpoweroff, which is an alternative to GShutdown written in Python/Gtk, see
https://launchpad.net/gpoweroff

I've improved Gpoweroff - added Hibernate and Suspend actions, changed dbus commands to modern universal org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit instead of outdated (and GNOME-depending) org.gnome.SessionManager
Patched Gpoweroff works fine with latest Ubuntu/Kubuntu 11.04 and 11.10 releases
Main GShutdown developer Philip Peitsch promised me to add my improvements to official Gpoweroff sources and release new Ubuntu packages in ppa:gpoweroff/stable repository, see bug #973577

Please include Gpoweroff instead of unmaintained and not working Gshutdown in Ubuntu repositories.

Newest Gpoweroff can also be installed from official Baltix GNU/Linux repository (ppa:baltix-members/ppa ), see
https://launchpad.net/~baltix-members/+archive

On Tue, Apr 3, 2012, Maxime Chéramy <email address hidden> wrote:
> Unfortunately, gshutdown is no longer developed nor maintained for a long
> time now. There are several reasons for that:
> - The developers had other projects and not enough time to do everything.
> - It was very discouraging to adapt the source code after each major
> release : the protocols changed, the commands changed, etc. That explains
> the "it stopped to work". At the time, there was a lack of a real standard
> common to any distribution and desktop manager. The solution was to try 3
> different ways of doing the same action! I don't know the current situation.
> - The source code was in C/Gtk2+ which is not very sexy to develop a
> graphical application. I would definitely use Python/Gtk now.